Coat of Arms and Insignia of S-Boats and S-Flotiilas

The S-boats of the Kriegsmarine were only partly furnished with coat of arms and with letters. Many boats were showing the initials or names of teh commanding officers on the bridge-superstructure partly in addition to the coat of arms of the flotilla.

Oblt.z.S./Kptlt Hans-Günter Jürgensmeyer	Lt.z.S./Kptlt Karl-Eberhard Karcher
Oblt.z.S. Georg Langheld	Oblt.z.S. Walter Knapp
Oblt.z.S. Hans-Joachim (Achim) Quistorf S 199, 8. SFllt

Some boats were furnished with comets and numbers or sign on the stern. 

The boats of some flotillas had certain communality with their coat of arms, there was a common coat of arms for the 2. SFllt, but the boats showed only one single playing card on the bridge. The boats of the 3. SFltl displayed on the side under the brigdge pictures of maritime creatures.

The boats of 4., 5., 6., 8. und 9. SFltl were furnished with common coat of arms.

Coat of Arms 4. SFltl on both sides under the bridge	Coat of arms 5. SFltl on both sides under the bridge
Coat of Arms 6. SFltl on both side on the bow	Coat of Arms 8. SFltl on both sides under the bridge, the ren was in memory of the operation in norther Norway
Coat of arms 9. SFltl on both sides under the bridge	Insignia of boats of the 3. SFltl
Coat of Arms of Tender "Tsingtau" - Picture: R. Beh	S 31 of the 3. SFltl with the Flying Fish as insignia  - Picture: Archive: H. Haag
Coat of Arms of Tender "Tanga" - Picture: K.  Scheuch